When is the best time to buy a car?
Experts say that the greatest demand for personal vehicles is in autumn and spring. If you want to save a little money, it is best to buy a car in winter a couple of weeks before the New Year holidays or immediately after them. At this time, stagnation occurs in the market (not only the automobile market).
Another opportunity to buy a car cheaper is to purchase a model left over from last year at a good discount. In the coming year, such cars become a year older. And the age of the car affects its price. However, this rule does not apply to popular car brands. And discounts are provided for budget-class cars much less often and more reluctantly than for expensive cars.
At the same time, you can take care of “shoes” in advance for your faithful friend – the car. Already in August, tire sellers receive winter goods. But since the time to change shoes has not yet come, prices are not yet seasonal. In June, it will be cheaper to buy summer tires, when the active season for changing shoes has already ended and prices become more affordable.
When is the best time to buy a car according to the lunar calendar?
It is believed that the lunar calendar can predict the success of a transaction. The waning moon helps reduce the price of the purchased car. There are also several lunar days that are most successful for making a transaction: 7, 10, 11, 17, 21 and 25.
- The seventh lunar day is suitable for choosing a car that will emphasize the status of its owner.
- On the tenth and eleventh days, buy a car for family and long trips.
- On the seventeenth lunar day, you should buy a car that requires investment and repair. The twenty-fifth day has the same character. Buy a car if you plan to resell or restore it.
- The twenty-first day is ideal for drawing up and signing a purchase and sale agreement.
When buying a car, pay attention to the position of the moon. The most successful positions for large purchases are the position of the satellite in Taurus and Leo, and for a car, in particular, in Gemini and Capricorn. Items purchased during this period will work for you and fully pay for themselves. To buy a car with further resale, wait until the moon is in Aries or Libra - at this time, transactions will be most successful.
When is the best time to buy real estate?
For some reason that is difficult to explain, Russians buy much less housing in the summer and during the New Year holidays. The desire to solve your housing problems arises mainly in spring and autumn. But it is during the summer months and winter holidays that demand falls in the real estate market and consumer activity decreases. At this time you can find the most “delicious” offers.
Why not take advantage of the opportunities that arise and look for housing at a reasonable price? The absence of a large number of competing buyers on the secondary market will allow you to take your time with your choice, better study the offered options, view a larger number of apartments, and bargain with sellers who are at this time ready to reduce the price.
In addition, in the summer, developers often offer discounts on apartments and organize all kinds of promotions. This happens because construction is more active in warmer times. And already from mid-August the price for them begins to rise steadily. Buying an apartment is becoming unprofitable.
The rules for purchasing real estate in this case do not apply to the purchase of country houses, dachas, and plots of land. Here everything is just the opposite. Summer is the peak season. Experts recommend buying these properties in October-November, but before the snow falls. At this time, the greenery is no longer there, all the defects of the buildings and the site are visible. In addition, sellers who were unable to sell their country property over the summer are becoming more accommodating.
How to save money when buying an apartment
If price is the main criterion when choosing an apartment, there are several other ways to buy it cheaper.
- You can consider options in non-prestigious areas (if you are not planning to purchase housing in a specific location and the goal is to save as much as possible). It can even be considered a good investment or a good investment if the area has development prospects in the coming years.
- Proper inspection of the selected object helps to save money. The more carefully you study the condition of the apartment and house, the infrastructure of the area, the more reasons you will have to bargain with the seller.
- A successful deal can be concluded by purchasing an apartment in a relatively new building, but one that requires major renovations due to its neglect. Repairs will require a lot of money, but the total amount (repair costs plus the cost of the apartment) may still be much less than the cost of a similar apartment, but with cosmetic repairs.
- Cheaper apartments are on the first and last floors.
- You can save on the services of intermediaries if you know the real estate market and are confident that you can handle it yourself. You will be even more lucky if you can find an apartment seller who also acts independently. You can bargain directly and save on the seller’s realtor, whose services are paid by the buyer. But there is one nuance: the safety and legality of the upcoming transaction. Do not neglect caution and common sense for the sake of saving. A low price (without apparent reasons that could explain this circumstance) may later turn out to be a scammer's trick for the buyer.
When are flights from Russia the cheapest?
According to Skyscanner statistics, there are two periods when it is most profitable to fly from Russia: mid-January - late February and mid-November - mid-December. The most expensive flights are in the summer and during the New Year holidays.
Price increases in May, summer and December are the most obvious pattern in airline pricing policies. The easier and more pleasant it is to tear it. Let's say you want to have an inexpensive holiday in Rome. The cheapest time to fly is in February, but the weather at this time is not inspiring. This is not yet a reason to postpone your trip to the summer - the most expensive time to travel to Italy. Fly in April-May, when prices are average for the year, and walking and eating ice cream is already a pleasure. Change your vacation dates so as not to fit into the carriers' plans!
It happens that vacation is tied to the “high season” - for example, school holidays. In this case, you won’t be able to beat the airline dry, but you can still save money. To do this, avoid popular destinations and look for tickets throughout the month.
Best time to buy furniture
When buying furniture, you also need to focus on a certain time of year. With the onset of warm days, it is time to renovate apartments. Therefore, in the fall, when all repair work is completed, it is better not to buy furniture. This is a time of rising consumer demand in the furniture market. It is much more profitable to do this in early summer, spring or winter during the sales season.
Garden furniture (as opposed to furniture for an apartment) can be bought at a good price in early autumn (and even as early as August).
Furniture showrooms can organize a “sale season” not once a year, but whenever they please and completely without reference to the time of year. These could be sales of collections from previous years, sales of furniture with minor defects. To quickly find out about promotions in such stores, you can subscribe to their newsletter. There are also sales of furniture from the manufacturer, when the factory itself reduces the price in order to get rid of stocks of previous collections.
The cost of furniture in online stores depends little on the season. As a rule, it is 7-10% cheaper than in regular stores.
How long before departure is it best to buy tickets?
In order not to overpay for a vacation, it is not enough to avoid the “high season”. You also need to buy air tickets before everyone starts buying them and prices rise sharply. We tell you how many months before departure to book tickets to save money.
When to book flights for May
The best time to buy air tickets for the May holidays depends on the destination. Use the Skyscanner widget to find the best time to book flights to your destination.
November is the best month to book May flights to Thailand, Cuba and other distant beach countries. You missed the point - buy air tickets until the end of winter: they will only become more expensive from now on.
In January-February there is a good chance to buy air tickets for May to Barcelona, Rome, Paris, Prague, Budapest and the rest of Europe at low fares.
In March, take tickets to Sochi, and if you spend May in Moscow, St. Petersburg or Kaliningrad, there will be cheap flights even in April.
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When to buy air tickets for the summer
Planning a cheap vacation for June-August is like counting your fingers: there are ten of them, and in the summer tickets and hotels are more expensive - there will be no surprises. But you can still save on your summer vacation if you book your flights at the right time.
The surest way to fly to Crimea cheaply in summer is to buy tickets in winter. It happens that you can find low fares a month before the flight, but you shouldn’t count on this: you risk overpaying up to a quarter of the cost of the flight if you book in advance.
Tickets to Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Georgia, Israel, Cyprus and the UAE are cheapest to buy at least 3 months before departure: if you fly in July, book in April or earlier. Ideally, in November-December: this way you will save up to a third of the average ticket price.
Summer flights to the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain or Hungary are best booked six months before the trip. This way you can save yourself a couple of nights together in a good hotel in the center of the European capital. If you didn’t have time to book your flight in advance, try not to delay until the last minute and don’t buy tickets for August later than mid-May. And so that the August vacation doesn’t squeeze the last juice out of you, find out where you shouldn’t go in the summer.
Summer is the most expensive time to travel to the US, so you need to book 6 months in advance. When there are less than two months left before departure, flights to America become more expensive by almost a third.
In Asia, summer is a “low season”: the weather at this time is more capricious, but there are few tourists, and tickets and hotels are cheap. The best time to book flights to Asia for the summer is in late autumn or winter. As a last resort - no later than a couple of months before departure.
When is it profitable to buy household and digital appliances?
Experts recommend buying a washing machine, stove, refrigerator, and other large household appliances after the New Year holidays. In summer, the demand for these goods increases due to the purchase of household appliances for dachas, and in early autumn - for renovated apartments. Consumer market researchers note that the best time to buy computers is summer.
Due to the emergence of new models, prices for digital equipment change very often. The rule here is simple: don’t buy right away. It’s better to do this six months or a year later, when the price of the model has decreased.
Cameras and photographic equipment can be purchased cheaper after the end of the summer holidays and vacations, somewhere in the beginning of autumn. On the contrary, the greatest demand for televisions is observed in the fall - early winter. The rest of the time, demand drops noticeably.
When is the best time to buy a fitness center membership?
Anyone who cares about the beauty of the body and physical health knows that training in sports clubs is not a cheap activity. But you can save money here too. The price of a subscription depends on the time of its purchase. With the onset of summer holidays, sports clubs and centers become empty. They try to attract customers with discounts and advantageous offers. The best time to buy a subscription is summer and before and after the New Year.
There are other opportunities to save on a subscription, for example, receiving bonuses for inviting your friends and relatives to the club, or visiting the fitness center during its least busy time (this is only suitable for unemployed people or those working on a flexible schedule). You can buy a subscription secondhand (they sell them much cheaper), buy an annual subscription (provided you plan to visit the club regularly).
The best time to buy air tickets, book hotels and tours for the New Year
If you know long before your trip where you will go during the New Year holidays, then summer is the time to buy vouchers and plane tickets. There are plenty more to choose from, and the savings (especially if it’s a trip with the whole family) can be significant for the family budget. In October-November prices will already rise.
When planning to buy something, it’s a good idea to remember the saying “prepare a sleigh in the summer and a cart in the winter.” After all, it is quite obvious that it is much more profitable to buy an air conditioner not when you no longer know where to hide from the sweltering heat, but on a frosty winter day, when many people dream of warming up near the heater. Buying out of season at the best price is an absolutely correct strategy for budget-conscious owners.
